[governance] Ethiopia criminalises the use of VOIP

[Adam Peake]

At 1:54 PM +0500 6/19/12, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>I am not going to complain here but did you know that I am forced to
>register on the FT website in order to read that Gulf crackdown on
>twitter article otherwise it throws me on to the front page??? Would
>anyone be willing to just copy and paste here that article for
>convenience?


Apologies, thought it was on the open side of the site,  one of the 
few teasers.  Free registration.

Adam




>No, thats actually becoming fun now, lets bash Twitter, oh no,
>Facebook, nah, Google! Hey, Skype?
>
>Its ironic that in some instances, the bashing does happen on US based
>products but what would people say about Asterisk, SIP, Google Talk,
>Google+ Messenger, Jabber, IRC, Yahoo Chat, Adobe Connect, WebEx etc
>that all support voice based activity, some of them European and some
>US and some open source community oriented development.
>
>Someone Ethiopia dealing with the regulatory de-regularization is just
>getting it all wrong but then again thats a well perceived example
>from Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries to restrict Voip so that
>the national exchequer makes some good load of money, may also need to
>create a Universal Service Fund, a possible internet innovation
>support fund and other activities to support a thriving telecom
>sector. So the interest is completely economic and nothing else.
>
>  One thing is clear, the recent visit of Google's CEO to Pakistan has
>sparked both positive and negative feelings in the citizenry here. At
>one side Google seems to be support FoE in the developing world and in
>this case Pakistan but on the other hand it wants to use its
>technologies to help the government implement surveillance which is a
>privacy breach as there is more legitimate movement across the borders
>than just extremist activity so its a mixed situation and no one
>criteria to judge whats going on.
>
>On the otherhand, in Ethiopia, its all economic and I believe they
>should remove this restriction on skype after a bit of global media
>bashing....
>
>Do you think one day Development Aid to such countries will require
>them to have more friendly and less restrictive regimes to FoE?
>
>Best
>
>Fouad
>
>On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>>  (Skype/Sweden? Whatever!)
>>
>>  "Gulf states crack down on Twitter users"
>> 
>><http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1e647122-a8d1-11e1-be59-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1yDyZUR2y>
>>
>>  Twitter's a U.S. company, so that's OK then...
>>
>>  Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>>  Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  ...
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On the other hand, despite the fact that such a ban exists on Skype,
>>>>  at the end of the day skype is a US based product, oh no, here we go
>>>>  again!
>>>>
>>>>  -- Foo
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  I know we all hate the US, and I am as good at that as anyone sometimes.
>>>  And I know everything good that is bad for you come from the US.
>>>
>>>  But in this case, I beleive Skype originated in Luxembourg and is still
>>>  based there.
>>>  Yes it was bought by Microsoft, but I am not sure that makes it a US based
>>>  product.
>>>
>>>  avri
>>>
>>>
>>>  ____________________________________________________________
>>>  You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>>>      governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>>>  To be removed from the list, visit:
>>>      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>>>
>>>  For all other list information and functions, see:
>>>      http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
>>>  To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>>>      http://www.igcaucus.org/
>>>
>>>  Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  ____________________________________________________________
>>  You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>>      governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>>  To be removed from the list, visit:
>>      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>>
>>  For all other list information and functions, see:
>>      http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
>>  To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>  >     http://www.igcaucus.org/
>>
>>  Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>>
>
>
>
>--
>Regards.
>--------------------------
>Fouad Bajwa
>ICT4D and Internet Governance Advisor
>My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/
>Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa


-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t